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Larry Craig, Anna Nicole Smith Stories Make Top 10 List

Project for Excellence in Journalism Releases Weekly Talk Show Index

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/12/2007 7:47:00 AM

The ongoing travails of Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig and a new book about the Anna Nicole Smith saga made the top 10 list of radio and cable talk-show topics last week (the week ending Oct. 5).

Anna Nicole Smith

That's according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism's weekly Talk Show Index.

The Craig story came in at No. 4 and Smith at No. 8, the latter about attorney Howard K. Stern's $60 million lawsuit against a book making lurid allegations.

Topping the list of topics was the 2008 campaign, followed by the Iraq policy debate, although that was primarily a debate about what conservative talker Rush Limbaugh meant when he referred to "phony soldiers" in a riff about soldiers, one in particular, who were criticizing the war.

The Blackwater shootout was the second-biggest story in terms of general coverage and the third in terms of talk shows. But some talkers -- including Limbaugh and Sean Hannity -- steered clear of the story, PEJ’s Mark Jurkowitz said in his index analysis.

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